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Super computer “Param Kanchenjunga”, which is the most powerful and fastest among all available at the 31 National Institute of Technology's, has been launched in which state of India?

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Sikkim
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Kerala
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Gujarat
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Odisha
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The correct option is A Sikkim
Sikkim has unveiled Supercomputer named ‘Param Kanchenjunga’ at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Sikkim. It is named after Kangchenjunga Mountain (8586 m), the third highest mountain in the world.
The Param Kanchenjunga is the most powerful and fastest among all available at the 31 National Institute of Technology's. A supercomputer is a computer with a high-level computational capacity compared to a general-purpose computer. Since its introduction in June 2013, China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer is the fastest in the world at 33.86 petaFLOPS (PFLOPS), or 33.86 quadrillions of FLOPS

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